A Brief Tour of Canon's Massive Showroom of Wonders

Canon USA's brand-new Long Island, New York headquarters doesn't just house boardrooms, cubicles, and water coolers. It's also where the venerable camera company maintains its giant showroom, in which every current Canon product—plus a plethora of other imaging technology tidbits—is on prominent display. We took a trip out there last week; here's a taste of what we found.

Probably our favourite display was Canon's collection of cameras throughout the ages, spanning from the 1934 Kwanon from Japan, to the 5D Mark II from 2008.

Among the more iconic cameras on display were oddballs like this 1986 RC-701, a precursor to digital, which stored images as analog scan lines—basically video frames—onto floppy disks.

Let's not forget that medical imaging is a huge industry for many of the companies that make our digital cameras. This is a retinal imaging machine for optometry—that you can can plug your DSLR right into.

And last but not least, a gentle reminder that calculators are still alive and kicking. Well, sort of.